 | Stalinist Values: The Cultural Norms of Soviet Modernity, 1917–1941 Subjects: Communism -- Soviet Union -- History; Social values -- Soviet Union; Political Culture -- Soviet Union; Soviet Union -- Social conditions; Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936–1953; Soviet official culture underwent a dramatic shift in the mid-1930s, when Stalin and his fellow leaders began to promote conventional norms, patriarchal families, tsarist heroes, and Russian literary classics. For Leon Trotsky--and many later... David L. Hoffmann is Professor of History at The Ohio State University. He is the author of Peasant Metropolis: Social Identities in Moscow, 1929-1941 , coeditor of Russian Modernity: Politics, Knowledge, Practices , and editor of Stalinism: The Essential Readings . |
